World Leaders Survivor Redux - Organisation Thread

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The twentieth round has completed, with five eliminated leaders:

Group One:

Robert Fico, Slovakia: 12 votes
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Apisai Ielemia, Tuvalu: 2 votes
Carlos Gomes Jr., Guinea-Bissau: 1 vote
Serzh Sargsyan, Armenia: 1 vote

Group Two:


Fradique de Menezes, Sao Tome and Principe: 9 votes
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Leonel Fernandez, Dominican Republic: 3 votes
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono: 3 votes
Denzil Douglas, Saint Kitts and Nevis: 1 vote


Group Three:


Johnson Toribiong, Palau: 7 votes
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Stephen Harper, Canada: 6 votes
Massimo Cenci, San Marino: 1 vote
Alvaro Colom, Guatemala: 1 vote
Alan Garcia, Peru: 1 vote

Group Four:


King Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah, Bahrain: 9 votes
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Pierre Nkurunziza, Burundi: 6 votes
Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Argentina: 1 vote

Group Five:


Viktor Yushchenko, Ukraine: 6 votes
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Ivo Sanader, Croatia: 4 votes
Ronald Venetiaan, Suriname: 4 votes
Yayi Boni, Benin: 1 vote
Abdoulaye Wade, Senegal: 1 vote

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A reminder that in this round, round 21, you can vote in two ways: 1 full vote for one leader, or two half votes for two leaders.

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The Slovakian fascist is out. Muy bien.

Congratulations.

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The twenty first round has completed, with five eliminated leaders:

Group One:

Ralph Gonsalves, St Vincent and the Grenadines: 4.75 votes
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Apisai Ielemia, Tuvalu: 4.5 votes
Serzh Sargsyan, Armenia: 3.5 votes
Carlos Gomes Jr., Guinea-Bissau: 1.5 votes
Rafael Correa, Ecuador: 1 vote

Group Two:


Denzil Douglas, Saint Kitts and Nevis: 6.5 votes
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Leonel Fernandez, Dominican Republic: 3.5 votes
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono: 2 votes
Pedro Pires, Cape Verde: 1.5 votes
Ernest Bai Koroma, Sierra Leone: 0.5 votes
Michael Somare, Papua New Guinea: 0.5 votes
David Thompson. Barbados: 0.5 votes

Group Three:


Stephen Harper, Canada: 6 votes
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Massimo Cenci, San Marino: 5 votes
Alvaro Colom, Guatemala: 1 vote
Alan Garcia, Peru: 1 vote
Manny Mori, Micronesia: 1 vote
Roosevelt Skerrit, Dominica: 1 vote
Sanjaagiin Bayar, Mongolia: 0.5 votes
Evo Morales, Bolivia: 0.5 votes

Group Four:


Pierre Nkurunziza, Burundi: 7 votes
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Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Argentina: 2 votes
Antonio Saca, El Salvador: 2 votes
Mirko Cvetkovic, Serbia: 1 vote
Mohamed Nasheed, Maldives: 1 vote
Baldwin Spencer, Antigua and Barbuda: 1 vote
Pakalitha Mosisili, Lesotho: 0.5 votes
Anote Tong, Kiribati: 0.5 votes

Group Five:


Ronald Venetiaan, Suriname: 6.5 votes
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Ivo Sanader, Croatia: 5.5 votes
Yayi Boni, Benin: 1.5 votes
Brian Cowen, Ireland: 0.5 votes
Litokwa Tomeing, Marshall Islands: 0.5 votes
Abdoulaye Wade, Senegal: 0.5 votes

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I broke a tie in group one.

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Another embarassing round for the forum. Sigh.

What's so embarrassing about eliminating Harper and Douglas?

Harper is an idiot but that group still includes lots of joke countries and a rather dubious character in Colom. Which really belonged busted before. Of course Harper lost because people have a deservedly soft spot for San Marino and refused to get on that train and there were other joke country alternatives.

I note that Hugh's tiebreaking votes have declined in value. They used to be half votes, now they're just quarter.

that was a one-off, to distinguish it as a tie-break vote.

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Another embarassing round for the forum. Sigh.

What's so embarrassing about eliminating Harper and Douglas?

I'm bewildered that I even have to argue about this. CANADA? The only way one can argue that Canada is not one of the best countries in the world is if one is a radical right-winger. I will just post one example: Bayar of Mongolia. Do you seriously, really, really consider him a better leader than Harper? I find that hard to believe of anyone.

Well, it's not thanks to Harper that Canada is one of the best countries in the world, it's like that since long before him.
Basically anyone can be elected prime minister in Canada and not  the country up

I have more respect for leaders who take into their hands an utter sh**t country and manage to get at least a decent administration out of it. Cristina Kirchner for instance might not be the greatest leader ever but she was very influential in her husband's administration when we recovered from the 2001 fiasco. And despite her flaws i still think we are better off now than in most of the past 30 years at least. And so far in tangible terms we haven't been hit that hard by the financial crisis.

...because capitalism in Argentina collapsed 8 years ago

(I loved my two+ months in Argentina, btw, and I do understand it isn't a third world nation. I'm also a feminist. But...CFdeK is basically just an empty head)

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Whoever holds office at the end of this stage, in 4-5 rounds, will be in.

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The twenty second round has completed, with five eliminated leaders:

Group One:

Carlos Gomes Jr., Guinea-Bissau: 9 votes
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Apisai Ielemia, Tuvalu: 3 votes
Rafael Correa, Ecuador: 2 votes
Serzh Sargsyan, Armenia: 2 votes

Group Two:


Leonel Fernandez, Dominican Republic: 8 votes
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Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono: 7 votes
David Thompson. Barbados: 1 vote

Group Three:


Massimo Cenci, San Marino: 9 votes
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Evo Morales, Bolivia: 5 votes
Alvaro Colom, Guatemala: 1 vote

Group Four:


Anote Tong, Kiribati: 7 votes
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Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Argentina: 6 votes
Antonio Saca, El Salvador: 2 votes

Group Five:


Ivo Sanader, Croatia: 6.5 votes
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Derek Sikua, Solomon Islands: 6 votes
Yayi Boni, Benin: 2 votes
Litokwa Tomeing, Marshall Islands: 1 vote

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Also, I broke a tie in group five, on the basis of regional solidarity

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feel free to do it. One of the best things about last time was the rivalries, coalitions and emotions round-by-round, and it looks like we're really starting to get that now in the redux.

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The twenty third round has completed, with five eliminated leaders:

Group One:

Hasina Wajed, Bangladesh: 9 votes
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Apisai Ielemia, Tuvalu: 2 votes
Serzh Sargsyan, Armenia: 2 votes
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo: 1 vote

Group Two:


Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono: 7 votes
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Pedro Pires, Cape Verde: 2 votes
Michael Somare, Papua New Guinea: 2 votes
Ernest Bai Koroma, Sierra Leone: 1 vote
David Thompson, Barbados: 1 vote

Group Three:


Seyni Oumarou, Niger: 6 votes
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Sanjaagiin Bayar, Mongolia: 4 votes
Evo Morales, Bolivia: 3 votes
Alvaro Colom, Guatemala: 1 vote
Lawrence Gonzi, Malta: 1 vote

Group Four:


Antonio Saca, El Salvador: 11 votes
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Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Argentina: 4 votes


Group Five:


Sergei Stanishev, Bulgaria: 6 votes
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Stephenson King, St Lucia: 5 votes
Yayi Boni, Benin: 2 votes
Derek Sikua, Solomon Islands: 1 vote

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First female leader voted off in group one.

Also, the runners-up in round 24 will have immunity in round 25, the final round before the regrouping.

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The twenty fourth round has completed, with five eliminated leaders, and five leaders gaining immunity:

Group One:

Serzh Sargsyan, Armenia: 9 votes
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Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo: 4 votes, immune round 25
Rafael Correa, Ecuador: 1 vote

Group Two:


Pedro Pires, Cape Verde: 7 votes
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David Thompson, Barbados: 5 votes, immune round 25
Michael Somare, Papua New Guinea: 2 votes
Ernest Bai Koroma, Sierra Leone: 1 vote

Group Three:


Alvaro Colom, Guatemala: 6.5 votes
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Edward Natapei, Vanuatu: 6 votes, immune round 25
Sanjaagiin Bayar, Mongolia: 3 votes

Group Four:


Pakalitha Mosisili, Lesotho: 9 votes
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Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Argentina: 6 votes, immune round 25
Jan Peter Balkenende, Netherlands, The: 1 vote

Group Five:


Stephenson King, St Lucia: 8 votes
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Derek Sikua, Solomon Islands: 3 votes, immune round 25
Yayi Boni, Benin: 2 votes
Patrick Manning, Trinidad and Tobago: 2 votes

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whoo we're getting close, finally (also mods, please sticky this thread)

I broke a tie in group 3, favouring a 'boring' neighbour (actually, Vanuatu has interesting politics) over a highly suspicious, bit less brown person. Call it affirmative action, if you like.

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ughhh...night that was not meant to be a big night, was a big night. I'm now going to clean it all up.

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The twenty fifth round has completed, with five eliminated leaders:

Group One:

Apisai Ielemia, Tuvalu: 9 votes
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Rafael Correa, Ecuador: 3 votes
Nikola Gruevski, Macedonia: 1 vote
Kostas Karamanlis, Greece: 1 vote
Martin Torrijos, Panama: 1 vote

Group Two:


Michael Somare, Papua New Guinea: 10 votes
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Ernest Bai Koroma, Sierra Leone: 3 votes
Donald Tusk, Poland: 1 vote

Group Three:


Roosevelt Skerritt, Dominica: 10 votes
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Evo Morales, Bolivia: 5 votes

Group Four:


Jigme Thinley, Bhutan: 8 votes
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Baldwin Spencer, Antigua and Barbuda: 4 votes
Gordon Bajnal, Hungary: 1 vote
Jakaya Kikwete, Tanzania: 1 vote
Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi, Samoa: 1 vote

Group Five:


Abdoulaye Wade, Senegal: 8 votes
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Yayi Boni, Benin: 3 votes
Patrick Manning, Trinidad and Tobago: 3 votes
Brian Cowen, Ireland: 1 vote

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OK, so stage one is complete! Thanks everyone for giving me something to do other than my essays and being involved.

Stage two will start over the next couple of days; there will be two groups of 35 and they'll continue until there are ten in both groups, who will be our finalists.

Before we get to the second stage though, I need your advice on a few issues. This isn't a vote, just a general gage of opinion, if you like.

1) Are there any leaders who should be swapped over for someone else who has more power in their country? Have they left office, or maybe the PM is more important than the President?

2) Should there be no immunity at all, the ad-hoc current system, or first-in immunity every round? maybe something else?

3) Do you like the 'mess with the format' rounds? Any ideas for other ways to change it up a bit, or should they be left behind as a first stage thing?

4) Any other ideas to make this more fun?

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I wanted to change my vote from Spencer to the Samoan guy after seeing that the attempt to save Thinley had failed, but the bracket was already locked.

To be fair, the booth was open about an extra 12 hours than it should've been

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OK, the second stage will shart very shortly.

The leaders will not change; and every second round will be either immunity or messing with the format, but in stage three there will be neither. Immunity will always be determined by the round in which it is offerred, and mostly on a 'first poster' basis, but it won't be possible to determine immunity in both groups. The 'messing with the format' rounds will take on various styles, potentially including the suggestions received here.

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Stage Twp Gropups are posted at the beginning of this thread.

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I used random.org; so yes. It's a biot of a shame that there aqre mnultiple biases, but I suppose if there weren't at least a few it'd be unfair because of it's non-rtandomness, so... :S

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I'm going through a typo era.

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The twenty-sixth round has completed, with two eliminated leaders:

Group A

Kostas Karamanlis, Greece: 9 votes
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Evo Morales, Bolivia: 5 votes
Ernest Bai Koroma, Sierra Leone: 1 vote

Group B

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Phillipines: 6 votes
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Derek Sikua, Solomon Islands: 4 votes
Hans-Rudolf Merz, Switzerland: 2 votes
Rupiah Banda, Zambia: 1 vote
Jakaya Kikwete, Tanzania: 1 vote

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The twenty-seventh round has completed, with two eliminated leaders:

Group A

Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Argentina: 8 votes
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Andrus Ansip, Estonia: 7 votes
Martin Torrijos, Panama: 1 vote

Group B

Derek Sikua, Solomon Islands: 8 votes
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Yayi Boni, Benin: 4 votes
Gordon Brown, United Kingdom: 2 votes